Literary Movements of ENGLISH Literature (1500-1660)
1500-1558: Tudor Period: humanist era
Thomas More, John Skelton
1558-1603 Elizabethan Period: High Renaissance
Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare
1603-1625 Jacobean Period: Mannerist style also Metaphysical and Devotional poets
Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert
1625-1649 Caroline Period
John Ford, John Milton
1649-1660 The commonwealth and the Protectorate: Baroque style and later Roccoco style
Milton, Andrew Marvel, Thomas Hobbes
1660-1700 The Restoration
John Dryden
1700-1800 The 18th Century: The Englightenment, Neoclassical Period, The Augustan Age
Alexander Pope, Johnothan Swift, Samuel Johnson
1785-1830 Romanticism: The age of revolution
William Wordsworth, ST Colridge
1830-1901 Victorian Period: Early, Middle and late victorian
Charles Dickens, George Eliot, robert Browning, Alfred
1901-1960 Modern Period: The Edwardian Era/ The Georgian Era
G.M. Hopkins, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot
1960- Postmodern and Contemporary Period
Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, John Fowels, Don DeLillo, A.S Byatt
Literary Movements of the Early 17th Century:
Amatory Fiction:
-Romantic Fiction written in the 17th century and 18th century, primarily written by women.
NOTABLE AUTHORS: Eliza Haywood, Delarivier Manley
Cavalier Poets:
-17th century english royalist poets, writing primarily about courtly love, called Sons of Ben (after Ben Jonson)
NOTABLE AUTHORS:Richard Lovelace, William Davenant
Metaphysical Poets:
-used extended conceit oftentimes about religion
NOTABLE AUTHORS: John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell
The Augustans:
-based mainly on classical ideals, satire and skepticism
NOTABLE AUTHORS: Alexander Pope, Johathan Swift
Romanticism:
-Emphasis of emotion and imagination, rather than logic and scientific thoughts. This period was a response to the Enlightenment.
NOTABLE AUTHORS: Victor Hugo, Lord Byron
Gothic novel:
-Romantic ideals are combined with an interest in the supernatural and the violence.
NOTABLE AUTHORS: Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker
Lake Poets:
- Romantic poets from the english lake district who wrote about nature and the sublime.
NOTABLE AUTHORS: William wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
AMERICAN ROMANTICISM
-Distinct from European Romantisicm, American form emerged slightly later, darkest aspects of American History
PRE-RAPHAELISM
-focused on undoing paintings of Raphael many were both painters and poets.
TRANSCENDENTALISM
-poetry and philosophy concerned with self- reliance and independence from modern technology
REALISM
-Late-19th century movement based on a simplification of style and image and an interest in poverty and everyday concerns.
SYMBOLISM
-Principally French movement based on structure of thought rather than poetic form or image.
MODERNISM
-main ideas are formal innovations and reactions to science and technology
FIRST WORLD WAR POETS
-poets who wrote about the ideals/ horrors of the first world war
POST-MODERNISM
-a postwar movement highlighting diversity, irony and word play.
CONFESSIONAL POETRY
-poetry that bluntly, and often brutally, exposes oneself as the part of the beauty and power of human frailty.
MAGICAL REALISM
-magical elements appear in a realistic perspective.
POST COLONISM
-oftentimes a politically-charged movement. members were from former european colonies.
1500-1558: Tudor Period: humanist era
Thomas More, John Skelton
1558-1603 Elizabethan Period: High Renaissance
Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare
1603-1625 Jacobean Period: Mannerist style also Metaphysical and Devotional poets
Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert
1625-1649 Caroline Period
John Ford, John Milton
1649-1660 The commonwealth and the Protectorate: Baroque style and later Roccoco style
Milton, Andrew Marvel, Thomas Hobbes
1660-1700 The Restoration
John Dryden
1700-1800 The 18th Century: The Englightenment, Neoclassical Period, The Augustan Age
Alexander Pope, Johnothan Swift, Samuel Johnson
1785-1830 Romanticism: The age of revolution
William Wordsworth, ST Colridge
1830-1901 Victorian Period: Early, Middle and late victorian
Charles Dickens, George Eliot, robert Browning, Alfred
1901-1960 Modern Period: The Edwardian Era/ The Georgian Era
G.M. Hopkins, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot
1960- Postmodern and Contemporary Period
Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, John Fowels, Don DeLillo, A.S Byatt
Literary Movements of the Early 17th Century:
- Amatory Fiction:
-Romantic Fiction written in the 17th century and 18th century, primarily written by women.NOTABLE AUTHORS: Eliza Haywood, Delarivier Manley
- Cavalier Poets:
-17th century english royalist poets, writing primarily about courtly love, called Sons of Ben (after Ben Jonson)NOTABLE AUTHORS:Richard Lovelace, William Davenant
- Metaphysical Poets:
-used extended conceit oftentimes about religionNOTABLE AUTHORS: John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell
- The Augustans:
-based mainly on classical ideals, satire and skepticismNOTABLE AUTHORS: Alexander Pope, Johathan Swift
- Romanticism:
-Emphasis of emotion and imagination, rather than logic and scientific thoughts. This period was a response to the Enlightenment.NOTABLE AUTHORS: Victor Hugo, Lord Byron
- Gothic novel:
-Romantic ideals are combined with an interest in the supernatural and the violence.NOTABLE AUTHORS: Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker
- Lake Poets:
- Romantic poets from the english lake district who wrote about nature and the sublime.NOTABLE AUTHORS: William wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
AMERICAN ROMANTICISM
-Distinct from European Romantisicm, American form emerged slightly later, darkest aspects of American History
PRE-RAPHAELISM
-focused on undoing paintings of Raphael many were both painters and poets.
TRANSCENDENTALISM
-poetry and philosophy concerned with self- reliance and independence from modern technology
REALISM
-Late-19th century movement based on a simplification of style and image and an interest in poverty and everyday concerns.
SYMBOLISM
-Principally French movement based on structure of thought rather than poetic form or image.
MODERNISM
-main ideas are formal innovations and reactions to science and technology
FIRST WORLD WAR POETS
-poets who wrote about the ideals/ horrors of the first world war
POST-MODERNISM
-a postwar movement highlighting diversity, irony and word play.
CONFESSIONAL POETRY
-poetry that bluntly, and often brutally, exposes oneself as the part of the beauty and power of human frailty.
MAGICAL REALISM
-magical elements appear in a realistic perspective.
POST COLONISM
-oftentimes a politically-charged movement. members were from former european colonies.